Dr. Alireza Bayat

Trenchless Technology Research

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A comprehensive description of the Underground Trenchless Technology research could be found at the Centre of Excellence for Trenchless Technology (CETT)’s website at: www.cett.ca

PhD Students

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Daniel Meles

PhD Student in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

Academic honour member of Golden Key International

M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 2003

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering Addis Ababa University. Ethiopia 1999

Carrie Murray

PhD Student in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

Carrie has 12 years experience in the geotechnical consulting business in western Canada and the western United States. She has carried out numerous geotechnical and engineering geology assessments for linear projects such as pipelines, railways and transmission lines as well as commercial infrastructure projects. She has experience in both the office and field acting as project manager and field engineer on a variety of projects focused on HDD river crossings, slope stability assessment, landslide remediation, site reconnaissance mapping, core logging, instrumentation installation and analysis.

M.Sc. in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada 2005
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 1999

Mohammadhossein Shafiee

PhD Student in Transportation Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

MohammadHossein’s area of specialization is flexible pavement design and analysis. He has the experience of superpave asphalt material lab instruction and pavement design teaching assistantship. He tried to investigate the fatigue and self healing properties of Nanoclay modified asphalt binder in parallel with calculation of deformations in HMA using digital Image Correlation technique during his MSc.

He is now focusing on evaluation of instrumented pavement response, performance and data analysis under traffic loading and environmental condition variations in his research in university of Alberta.

M.Sc. in Road and Pavement Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran 2011

BSc in Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran 2009

MSc Students

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Soroush Khazraei

Master of Science Student in Construction Eng. & Management, University of Alberta, Canada.

Soroush’s research topic is on Evaluation and Qualitative Comparison of Trenchless Rehabilitation Standards of Urban Sewer Pipelines, Using Multiple Criteria Decision Making Techniques.

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Azad University, Central Branch of Tehran, Iran 2008

Mitacs Accelerate Internship Award Winner, Canada’s premiere research internship program for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply their specialized expertise to business research challenges.

Best Undergraduate Civil Engineering Student Award Winner, Azad University of Iran – Central Tehran Branch. Exempt from the qualification exams of the institution’s graduate studies program at the Master’s level, 2008.

Naser Farkhideh

Master of Science Student in Transportation Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

Naser is currently working on Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Accuracy Analysis and Its Impact on Pavement Design Based on new Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG).

B.Sc. in Civil Engieering, Amir Kabri University of Technology, Iran 2010

Author of the paper “Evaluation of the Accuracy of Weigh-In-Motion Systems in Alberta and its Effects on Pavement Design”, submitted and approved by Transportation Research Board (TRB); 91th Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA January 2012 for presentation.

Meisam Norouz

Master of Science Student in Transportation Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

Meisam is researching on FWD Network Analysis of Alberta Highways and Seasonal Variation of Subgrade Moduli in Albertan Roads

B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran 2010

MEng Students

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Evaluation of the Effects of Canadian Climate Conditions on the MEPDG Predictions for Flexible Pavement Performance

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This study aims to investigate the quality of the recently developed Canadian climatic database and the effect of climatic factors on flexible pavement performance using the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG).

Identification, Evaluation and Implementation of Technologies for Winter Road Management

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A multi-phase research study is conducted to identify, experiment, and possibly implement real-time and continuous road friction measurements to evaluate road surface conditions objectively and quantitatively. The main objective of the project is to evaluate current winter operations and possibly provide recommendations for future improvements in the present practice. This project is sponsored by The City of Edmonton.

Seasonal Variations of Subgrade Moduli in Cold Climate Conditions- A Network Analysis on Alberta Highways

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Ten-year network Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) testing results on more than 180 road sections in the Province of Alberta is used to investigate the seasonal variations in the subgrade moduli. This project is sponsored by the Alberta Transportation.

Evaluation of the Accuracy of Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Systems in Alberta and its Effects on Pavement Design

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This project includes the evaluation of the accuracy of the traffic data collected using WIM systems. Six WIM stations located on different highway locations in Alberta were evaluated through a validation testing program, conducted from 2006 to 2010. This project is sponsored by the Alberta Transportation.

Investigation of the Effects of Environmental Factors on Pavement Properties and Performance in Cold Regions

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The main objective of this research is to characterize and quantify the effects of environmental factors on pavement materials and performance in cold regions using a comprehensive laboratory, field, and network research program. The laboratory program will characterize several types of soils via simulation of several environmental scenarios. Thaw-weakening indices and prediction models will be developed to characterize pavement materials behavior. The field monitoring program and network study will provide authentic data to facilitate the evaluation of laboratory findings. This study is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering.

Edmonton Waste Management Centre (EWMC) Test Road

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The test road is a new 500-m long access road for the EWMC, located northeast of Edmonton. The test section is scheduled to be constructed and instrumented with more than 230 different sensors in spring and summer of 2012. The research project is sponsored and funded by national and provincial organizations as listed below:

Canadian Foundation for Innovation
Alberta Transportation
Alberta Tire Recycling
City of Edmonton

The research project includes eight different instrumentation sections to investigate:

Performance of three road embankments filled with tire shredded aggregates (TDA) made from three different scrap tires sources,
Performance of three different materials as road insulation layers,
Flexible pavement performance in a Cold Region.